"… the truest writers are those who see……" — Derek Walcott
"… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…"
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37 Quotes by Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott has 37 quotes on this site.
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Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
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The English language is nobody's special property.
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Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached…
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The classics can console. But not enough.
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I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a…
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A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
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We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
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The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh…
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The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we…
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To change your language you must change your life.
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The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the…
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More Black History Quotes
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one of 124 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
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You must change in order to survive.
— Pearl Bailey
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I do consider myself part of black history.
— Mary J. Blige
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain…
— Muhammad Ali
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your…
— Ralph Abernathy
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
— Maya Angelou
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is…
— Maya Angelou
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I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning…
— Mo Rocca
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They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.
— Rush Limbaugh
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the…
— Lynn Swann
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Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel…
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